Briefs

Paradeep: Eight persons were injured in a clash over a patch of land at Balidia village under Paradeep Lock police station in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district. Four of the critically injured...

Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday while he was on an assignment for Reuters, will be laid to rest at the Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard....

Bhubaneswar: Pregnant women in the Odisha capital can take COVID vaccine (Covaxin) at all government UPHCs/UCHCs and Capital Hospital from July 21. They will be given the jab every Wednesday...

Kalahandi: Police have arrested a woman and two men for allegedly smuggling ganja by hiding it in saree packets near Kesinga in Kalahandi district. Police sources said a team led...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Crime Branch on Sunday said its Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two gunrunners in Khurda district. The two accused, Basanta Moharana of Nayagarh and Krushnachandra Srichandan...

Bhubaneswar: The evaluation of the Matric offline examination in Odisha will begin from July 30. Briefing the media on Saturday, School and Mass Education secretary Satyabrata Sahu said that the...

Bhubaneswar: Former first-class cricketer, football referee and noted sports journalist of Odisha Shyamakanta Patnaik passed away due to old age ailments here on Saturday. He was in his eighties. Based...

Bhadrak: Police seized brown sugar worth over Rs 1 crore from an auto rickshaw and arrested four persons in this connection from NH-16 near Dhamara bridge in Bhadrak district on...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday unveiled a collection of short stories Mati Ghoda, authored by  retired bureaucrat Pradipta Mohapatra. Naveen congratulated Mohapatra and wished him success.

Bhawanipatna: A gas leak at Koksara Milk Chilling Plant of OMFED in Koksara of Kalahandi district on Friday left three persons seriously injured. The injured have been admitted to Koksara government...